7 years old in 1966 grew up 1460 nelson st @ nicola right across from firehall #6 the firemen would play volleyball in their parking lot I would stand at the corner of the alley when the ball went over the fence I would chase it down the alley for them (I knew the inside of the firehall just as good as they did 🤗) went to lord roberts elementary brother & sister king george H/S 2:35 that was crystal pool 7:27 kid on his Vancouver Sun paper route 7:59 2 buildings on Pendrell st across from my school the apartments were really cool😎they were pie slice shaped a lot of hippys but they were harmless the beaches and Stanley park was our playground we had to be home when the 9:00 o-clock gun went off SURE DO MISS THOSE DAYS 😥
Great stuff ! Vancouver just as it was starting to bloom into a "happening" city as the 1960's/1970's/1980's era was just starting to take off, the rest is history, and unfortunately Vancouver's best years are now also history, in my opinion.
@ 1:05 - Herbie Hancock's Maiden Voyage. Brilliant soundtrack, possibly Don Thompson on piano? Post-war Modernism with Modern Jazz, a wonderful combination.
"A hundred thousand people live here." Wow. today, in 2017, there are just shy of 50,000 people "here". Either we've experienced a devastating plunge in population, or CBC was as sloppy in its reportage in 1966 as it is today.
It’s meant to be a kind of visual sketchbook with more poetic/ prose script of the city’s metamorphosis at the time, rather than a statistically accurate documentary.
You find some other population projections around that time also being off it seems. So I think the cause may have been some statistician that everybody reported on, who made some incorrect projections in original calculations. Don't quote me on it, as I think Gordon Price did a blog posting on West End population that goes into the numbers that are worth reading, which also comments on West End density, but population today for the west end is only slightly higher than it was then--which suggests the neighbourhood maintains basically the same numbers it did then.
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7 years old in 1966 grew up 1460 nelson st @ nicola right across from firehall #6 the firemen would play
volleyball in their parking lot I would stand at the corner of the alley when the ball went over the fence I
would chase it down the alley for them (I knew the inside of the firehall just as good as they did 🤗)
went to lord roberts elementary brother & sister king george H/S 2:35 that was crystal pool
7:27 kid on his Vancouver Sun paper route 7:59 2 buildings on Pendrell st across from my school the
apartments were really cool😎they were pie slice shaped a lot of hippys but they were harmless
the beaches and Stanley park was our playground we had to be home when the 9:00 o-clock gun went off
SURE DO MISS THOSE DAYS 😥
Great stuff ! Vancouver just as it was starting to bloom into a "happening" city as the 1960's/1970's/1980's era was just starting to take off, the rest is history, and unfortunately Vancouver's best years are now also history, in my opinion.
@ 1:05 - Herbie Hancock's Maiden Voyage. Brilliant soundtrack, possibly Don Thompson on piano? Post-war Modernism with Modern Jazz, a wonderful combination.
For "The Swinger" !!
Home of the "Swinger"... Nice slice of the past.
Boy Vancouver,BC was sure town full of hepcats.
"A hundred thousand people live here." Wow. today, in 2017, there are just shy of 50,000 people "here". Either we've experienced a devastating plunge in population, or CBC was as sloppy in its reportage in 1966 as it is today.
I think it's tongue in cheek, a deadpan sendup of the swinging West End.
It’s meant to be a kind of visual sketchbook with more poetic/ prose script of the city’s metamorphosis at the time, rather than a statistically accurate documentary.
You find some other population projections around that time also being off it seems. So I think the cause may have been some statistician that everybody reported on, who made some incorrect projections in original calculations. Don't quote me on it, as I think Gordon Price did a blog posting on West End population that goes into the numbers that are worth reading, which also comments on West End density, but population today for the west end is only slightly higher than it was then--which suggests the neighbourhood maintains basically the same numbers it did then.
my hood
Thurlow and Davie
5:11
What BS!
How so?
I can't now remember why I thought so!